Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Enter
The ancients
Ye have eaten
General references
Bible References
Enter
Job 22:4
Will He reprove you because of your reverence, or enter into judgment with you?
Job 34:23
For He does not still impose on man to go before God in judgment.
Psalm 143:2
And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is just.
The ancients
Isaiah 3:2
the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
Ye have eaten
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!
Job 24:2
They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed them.
Jeremiah 5:27
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.
Amos 4:1
Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink.
Micah 2:2
And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.
Micah 6:10
Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful?
Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable. There was a certain housemaster who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went into a far country.
General references
Leviticus 25:14
And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.